AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
INDEX, 
Agricultural Exhibitions.60 
“ fair, a German.61 
“ patents.53 
society exhibition at Boston.51 
Agriculture, Year Book of.70 
Air necessary for decomposition.53 
Ants, how to drive away.64 
Apples and pears, gathering.67 
“ keeping frozen.67 
Beasts that perish.62 
Beef, cutting up and retailing.52 
Book Notices.70 
Bread from grown wheat.59 
Breeding animals.57 
Buckwheat porridge..62 
“ cakes.50 
Carnations, impregnation of.64 
Carrots for poultry.53 
Cattle, regulation in feeding.56 
Chain pumps.54 
Clay for light land. 54 
Corn carrying in Russia. 59 
“ some.. 53 
Crop, a profitable.50 
Curing bacon without smoke.57 
Eating and sleeping.60 
Fall plowing.54 
Farming in Maine.05 
Flax cotton.54 
Folding ladder.04 
Fruit raising profitable.60 
Gardening in Virginia.68 
Grass...59 
<Jround and unground food.65 
Harvest, a golden.50 
Hedges, how to cut.58 
Hogs, management of.58 
“ time of putting up.50 
Honey. 65 
Horses, staggers in.63 
Lambs, winter management of. 55 
Leaves, to take impressions of.64 
“ for litter.69 
Minnesota, from.63 
Muck, more about.!.51 
“ ashes.53 
Mushroons, how to grow.62 
Notes from our field-book.65 
Parsley, winter.63 
Pear culture, progress in.67 
“ question, the dwarf.69 
Potatoes, large.64 
Preserves.63 
Preserving plants in winter.68 
Pudding, unique.62 
Radish, long scarlet.68 
Sawdust for. bedding.61 
Sealing-wax for cans. 64 
Shade-trees for cities.66 
Squash, “some”.63 
Stock, look well to the.55 
Subscribers to our.52 
Taplin’s horse-power.53 
Toast, a comical.66 
Tobacco analysis.53 
Tooth-ache remedy.04 
Trip to the Mississippi.49 
Wheat bread.64 
Wheat flour—composition of... .52 
Willow culture.62 
Wind-mill, Vermont.55 
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